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“Enterprises can’t afford to be slow,” Amazon Web Services leader Andy Jassy told this year's AWS re:Invent conference.

Threats and opportunities from faster, better predictive analytics are highlighted in this year’s SAS Forum.

Facebook CIO Tim Campos says the next-generation CIO will deal with "a lot more information", and expects the role to be a lot more data focused, and a "lot less operationally focused".

Three years ago, software company BMC formed an Incubation Team assigned to "worry about radical innovation" and "take away the risk" from the product teams.

"Our business is not just four DHBs (district health boards) but effectively we are delivering to many individual hospital departments and primary and community care organisations, working together around the patient," says Johan Vendrig, general manager information systems, at healthAlliance.

It is a 'great time' to be a data scientist, says Dr Rami Mukhtar, senior researcher, National ICT Australia (NICTA).

Fonterra CIO Chris Barendregt says a big development for him and his team at the dairy giant is "the continuing maturity of IT"."We are moving past the point where people in Fonterra largely don't care about technology anymore. The sidetracking debates are gone," says Barendregt, who moved to Fonterra nearly five years ago following executive roles in banking and IT services outsourcing.

Today's CIOs are busier than ever, but business strategist Donna Sturgess says a day off from the office for an "immersion" will refresh their view of the organisation, and generate new ideas for innovation.

When IT projects fail, the usual reaction for CEOs and the boards is to blame the software, third party consultants, or the IT department, says Sarah J Runge, director of Corporate Profiling Global at ITPSB Corporation in the US.

Tanya Harris was head of human resources at the Reserve Bank of New Zealand in Wellington when she made a lateral career move.